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The proposal to build 74 residential rental units, roughly 60 percent of them marked for affordable housing, next to the Shawmut MBTA Station drew roughly 130 people to an online meeting last week as city planning and ... Read more.
The late, and legendary, college basketball coach John Thompson for decades relied on his team’s relentless defensive skills to run even the most talented offensive opponents out of the gym. That same formula – stifling ... Read more.
Brian Donnelly, a former congressman, state representative from Dorchester, and US ambassador who helped thousands of immigrants through the passage of a visa program that he sponsored, died on Tuesday at his home in ... Read more.
For the second time in a year, the Zoning Board of Appeal has rejected a proposal by a billboard company and the Polish American Citizens Club to erect a digital billboard on club property to beam ads at Expressway ... Read more.
The pages of this local paper have been full to bursting the last few months with reporting and opinion pieces about the many proposals currently making their way through the city’s permitting process to build much-needed ... Read more.
Walk into Andrea Livesey’s classroom at the Joseph Lee School on Talbot Avenue, take a deep breath, let the soft music melt away anxieties, then exhale. That is what hundreds of Lee School students experience every day in ... Read more.
Mayor Wu and the Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement (MOIA) are awarding $50,000 in mini-grants to five nonprofits for creative initiatives that help green card holders become US citizens. The grants range from $2, ... Read more.
Nurse, scholar, advocate, mentor, drummer, runner, loyal friend, and loving husband, father, son, and brother, Dennis P. Doherty, PhD, RN, NPDA-BC, passed away on Sun., Feb. 12, while battling pancreatic cancer. He was 46 ... Read more.
It came down to “Final Jeopardy” at Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy Charter Public School last month as students vied for the championship of the school’s Black History Showdown. All three teams answered correctly: Mae ... Read more.
With the recent purchase of a three-unit home on Mather Street, the Epiphany School in the Melville Park section of Dorchester now owns six residential properties close to its campus next to Shawmut station. The school ... Read more.
After reading as much as I could about the 150 Centre St. proposal, talking to neighbors, Boston Planning and Development Agency officials, and attending community presentations, one thing is clear. The same facts can ... Read more.
Former President Jimmy Carter, 98, is receiving palliative care at his home in Georgia this week. It has been 42 years since he left office, giving him the distinction of being the longest living “ex-president” in our ... Read more.
US Labor Secretary Marty Walsh joined city and state officials, as well as hotel administrators and employees last week in heralding the formal opening of a training center for hospitality workers.
“We are ... Read more.
Voters in a part of Dorchester can pencil in a special election for May, as their state representative, Jon Santiago, has resigned to take a job in the Healey administration.
Santiago, a South End Democrat and a ... Read more.
The TechBoston Academy girls basketball team won the City Championship last Thursday afternoon at the Madison Park gymnasium.
After defeating Fenway High, Coach Malcolm Andrews’s team beat New Mission High, 66-52, ... Read more.
Don’t call it a farewell tour.
Marty Walsh, who is winding down his time as President Biden’s labor secretary, was inside the Omni Hotel in Boston’s Seaport district on Monday, speaking at the ribbon-cutting of a ... Read more.
Thousands of people spent a summer evening in Fields Corner last year flowing through a Dorchester Avenue scene filled with vendors who were selling grilled meat and seafood as part of a “night market” in Boston’s “Little ... Read more.
While walking along her usual Sunday morning route down Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan, Fatima Ali-Salaam stopped to watch as a group of Family Dollar employees unloaded a semi-truck full of boxes. “That’s an entire store ... Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court today ordered a new trial for Omay Tavares, convicted of a 2010 murder on Rosseter Street, because his attorney, leading his first ever murder case after serving a two-year suspension for "gross ... Read more.
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